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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 5-4-13 on page I-406 in "truncate --- Truncate text to a given length".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{153.0pt}

  \setlength\parindent{0pt}

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{truncate}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
|This text is not~truncated| (to compare)     \par
|\truncate{50pt}{This text is not~truncated}| \par
|\truncate[{\,[..]}]{95pt}{This text is not~truncated}|
\end{document}
